Industrial toxic waste treatment

Industrial toxic waste treatment

Dettagli del progetto

Costo totale:

Non disponibile

Contributo UE:

Non disponibile

Coordinato in:

Italy

Argomento (i):

Meccanismo di finanziamento:

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Obiettivo

The general objective of the project is the development of a process for the treatment of industrial toxic waste, as an alternative to incineration, and characterized by: use of hydrogen peroxide as non polluting oxidizer; operating temperature lower than 100 C; absence of toxic emission and residues; suitable for the treatment of both diluted and highly concentrated pollutants; and possible multiphase operation (insoluble and immiscible wastes).

The project will consist of: treatment of selected substances with various concentrations of hydrogen peroxide in the presence of catalytic amounts of suitable transition metal ions and preliminary investigations of the reaction efficiency on the water soluble pollutants; study of the mechanisms of oxidation of model compounds by hydrogen peroxide as a function of the catalyst and of the reaction conditions; and optimization of the process for total degradation of toxic substances and design of a treatment plant.